There’s a Gell-Mann amnesia effect for people you know personally, where media pop-psych profiles of people you know in person are often wildly off the mark and you don’t assign them a shred of believability, yet still half-believe psych profiles of people you don’t know
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That said, the media gets psych profiles of individuals roughly right far more often than profiles of organizations. Partly because individuals are easier to read, partly because organizational profiles are more likely to be fueled by interviews with the worst discontents.
8:55 AM - 22 May 2018
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